Authored by Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian via ForeignPolicy.com,
Declassified documents released last week shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s central role in the 1953 coup that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh, fueling a surge of nationalism which culminated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and poisoning U.S.-Iran relations into the 21st century.
For the 22nd week in a row, the number of US oil rigs rose (up 6 to 747) to the highest since April 2015.
Given the historical relationship between lagged prices and rig counts, we suspect the resurgence in rigs may begin to stall...
Oil is headed for the longest run of weekly losses since August 2015 as OPEC member Libya restored production and the surplus in the U.S. shows little sign of abating.
Authored by Haley Zarumba via OilPrice.com,
As Venezuela’s oil industry goes down it flames, it’s looking like it may just take Cuba down with it.
Venezuela, once the crude powerhouse of South and Central America, is no longer able to produce enough oil to sustain its own economy, much less those of other countries. Cuba is frantically drilling in search for new reserves and reaching out for new suppliers, but there is no guarantee they’ll be able to stabilize their oil income any time soon.
With last Friday's "tech wreck" now a distant memory, this morning the "FOMC Drift" described yesterday, which "guarantees" higher stock prices and a lower dollar heading into the Fed announcement is in full effect, with European and Asian stocks rising for a second day, led by rebounding tech shares, while S&P futures are modestly in the green and stocks on Wall Streets hit a record high overnight.
Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog,